Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU)https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/11240/all
enTake action to stop more attacks on welfare recipientshttps://www.greenleft.org.au/content/take-action-stop-more-attacks-welfare-recipients
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>When federal parliament reconvenes on February 5, the Coalition government’s first priority will be to pass two punitive bills which, if made into law, will make life even harder for those trying to get by on income support.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://unemployedworkersunion.com" target="_blank">Australian Unemployed Workers Union</a> is urging people to express their opposition to the <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5927" target="_blank">Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017</a> and the <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5939" target="_blank">Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017</a>.</p>
<p>Below is an edited summary of the bills, produced by the AUWU.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:06:10 +0000pip.hinman65191 at https://www.greenleft.org.auThe Australian Unemployed Workers Union: helping the vulnerablehttps://www.greenleft.org.au/content/australian-unemployed-workers-union-helping-vulnerable
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>There are about 13 million people in the Australian workforce. According to <a href="http://www.roymorgan.com/morganpoll/unemployment/underemployment-estimates" target="_blank">Roy Morgan Research</a>, in October a total of 2.5 million Australians, or 19% of the workforce, were either unemployed (1,188,000) or under-employed (1,266,000). This is up 256,000 from October 2015.</p>
<p>According to an <a href="http://http://www.media.anz.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=248677&amp;p=irol-jobad&amp;nyo=0" target="_blank">ANZ report on vacant jobs data</a>, at the moment there are about 165,000 jobs advertised per week. Such a shortage of available jobs for the number of people needing a job, or more work, means we have a jobs crisis.</p></div></div></div>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:04:51 +0000kathy_f62720 at https://www.greenleft.org.au